Chilleurs-aux-Bois · Loiret
The gardens and water mirror of Chamerolles
Chamerolles in the Loiret is a moated Renaissance quadrilateral whose gardens, from the early sixteenth century to 1789, were confined to the square before the west front, framed by canals.
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From the source
Château de Chamerolles is a château at Chilleurs-aux-Bois, Loiret, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France. The recorded building campaign dates from the 16th century. Its architecture is recorded as Renaissance architecture. It is protected as a monument historique at the higher of the two levels (classé). Details are drawn from the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture.
Editorial reading
The record gives the garden its own history. From the early sixteenth century until the end of the Ancien Régime the gardens stayed within the quadrilateral in front of the western façade, framed by a network of canals. In 1789 a larger scheme of classical inspiration was drawn up: to the south the pond was reshaped as a water mirror with a curved, 'eared' outline, and the ground to the north was partly reorganised. Laid out in the English manner in the nineteenth century, the garden was all but abandoned around 1920. The 2016 listing covers the ground of the present garden west of the château with the ditches that bound it, the water mirror, the enclosure walls, the gate of the forecourt’s demi-lune and the two forecourt pavilions.
Recommendation
Look for the 'eared' outline of the water mirror: it is the 1789 plan, still legible in the pond.
Sources
Base Mérimée — immeubles protégés · PA00098753 — Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) — Ministère de la Culture, base Mérimée
Wikimedia Commons · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chamerolles3.jpg — Public domain
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